Mental Flosshttp://mentalfloss.com/node/27256/atom.xml2015-03-03T22:36:49+00:00http://mentalfloss.com/article/27256/sketching-all-new-york2011-03-15T12:44:37+00:002011-03-15T12:46:12+00:00Sketching all of New YorkColin Perkins

The website All of the Buildings in New York exists for one reason. To display illustrations. Illustrations of what, you ask? Illustrations of all the buildings in New York. That’s probably how it got its name.

James Gulliver Hancock is the man behind the insane plan to capture every NY structure in sketch. And, while completion of every structure in the Big Apple seems unlikely, the ones he's finished do have a cool look to them: